"I... I don't want my father, mother, and you to meet Alver... Very sad. Sir Ernest stopped talking, and said something in a hurry.

Isabel looked at each other and thought, "Could it be that Alph died a miserable death?" Corpses blown into pieces by artillery? God, the bronze cannon of this era is probably not that powerful. ”

Glancing at his parents on the right, then at his brother, "Where is Alfer's coffin now?" Take me there, I'm going to see Alver one last time. ”

The two said goodbye to Baron Walton and his wife, and Isabel did not let her personal maids Anne and Dorothy follow her, and left the manor alone with her brother to go to St. Michael's Church in the territory. Walking out of the gate, then turning right to the south, as the two of them walked on the hard road paved with gravel in front of the door, Ernest squinted at the eldest daughter of the family beside him, "Did you already think of such a result?" ”

Isabel walked slowly with her hands behind her back, the handguard sword on her left waist swayed slightly with the swing of her body, and raised her head to look at the dark sky, "When you came to your father's territory, I thought that you and Caroline had another child. ”

"Later, I took volunteers to find out the news in Scotland, and I thought the same thing."

Ernest looked at her twice and didn't speak, but said to himself, "If there is still war on the border, I will still go." ”

Isabel nodded, "Wars that don't die only happen at the negotiating table. ”

The two of them came to a gazebo-like wooden half-human fence gate outside the church boundary, pushed the door in, and walked through the cemetery near the church into the church. As soon as she walked through the church door, Isabel saw a coffin placed in front of the altar of the church, and a male believer, a volunteer, who served the church unconditionally, was carefully wiping the coffin.

Isabel stood in front of the coffin and gently stroked the lid of the coffin, "Open it." ”

Ernest nodded to the volunteer standing on the side, who stepped forward and gently lifted the lid of the coffin. The young Alford Walton was dressed in a three-quarter suit and lay face up, holding a handguard sword with his hands crossed over his chest, and on the left side of his body was a swallowtail spear banner with the coat of arms of Baron Walton I.

"When I saw Alver, his head was gone. It was knocked out by the artillery of the highlanders, I guess. Ernest stared at his younger brother, who closed his eyes as if he were asleep.

"So, you found Elver's head after the war ended?" Isabel leaned down and put her arm into the coffin, caressing Alfred's barely injured face. All of a sudden, she remembered the little boy who was screaming hungry all day long and would only run behind her sister Euphemia's ass.

"Well, after the battle, Sir Alex Ferguson and I returned to the place where Irfer had died, and found his head in a small pond. Later, craftsmen were hired from the town of Carlisle to sew his head and body together. ”

Isabel leaned down and kissed her younger brother lightly on the cheek, and as she stood up, she looked at her younger brother, "Elver, you have completed your mission, go to God." ”

Three days later, Alfred's funeral ceremony was officially held in St. Michael's Church. The ceremony was attended not only by the nobles, knights, squires, magistrates, governors of the peace and local officials of Richmond and Yorkshire, who knew Isabelle, but also by all the members of the Northern Council and representatives sent by the Earl of Lancashire and the Earl of Durham. Of course, almost all the nobles, knights, and squires from the five northern counties and royal domains attended the funeral of a knight's squire in the presence of Isabel and her father.

Under the auspices of the family pastor, Pastor Roger Eslip, the Greeting, the Rite of the Order, the Eucharist, and the Farewell were performed. Next, the funeral rites are held: blessing the tomb, sprinkling holy water and incense on the tomb and coffin, officiating at the ceremony, prayers, burial of the coffin, sealing the tomb, singing and farewell.

Finally, for some time after Alfred was buried, the members of the Walton family asked the priest to celebrate Mass for him, in order to save the spirit who did not go to hell and was temporarily punished in the spirit refining to ascend to heaven as soon as possible.

After all, this is the Catholic atmosphere of the north, and it is simply not feasible not to observe the Catholic rites and sacraments. Coupled with the "Law of the Six Creeds" enacted by Henry VIII the year before, all but staunch Reformer were required to follow the main doctrines, rituals, and all sacraments of the Catholic Church.

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Scotland's crushing defeat in the invasion of England led to a nervous breakdown of James V. To make matters worse, the heir who died on December 8 was not a boy, but a daughter, Mary Stuart (later Mary I, Queen of Scots). Twenty days later, James V died in a wrench, leaving behind a young daughter to succeed him to the throne.

As soon as James V died, all eyes of Europe were on his only heir, Mary Stuart, who was lying in the cradle. The baby girl, who became Queen of Scots six days after her birth, became a wonder in the eyes of the kings of England and France before she even opened her eyes. Whoever marries her becomes the king of Scotland, which is a generous gift with a crown, a country, and an inheritance.

When news of the death of James V and the birth of Queen Mary reached the city of London, Henry VIII, who was very excited, felt that the time had come to annex Scotland by marriage, and immediately enacted and signed the Treaty of Greenwich on 1 July 1543. The treaty was divided into two parts, the first of which helped to establish peace between the kingdoms of England and Scotland; The second part was to plan the marriage of Prince Edward of England (i.e., Edward VI) to Mary I, Queen of Scots.

In the second part of the treaty, Mary Stuart would be accompanied by an English nobleman/gentleman (and his wife) until she was 10 years old. After that, Mary would go to the city of London to live until she married Prince Edward. In addition, the Greenwich Treaty allowed the Kingdom of Scotland to maintain its laws.

Henry VIII's wishes were good, he hoped that the British and Soviet Union could form an alliance without the means of war and eventually become a kingdom. Unfortunately, as the head of the Supreme Church of Anglicanism, he was a heretic in the eyes of Mary de Guise, the eldest daughter of Queen Mary's mother, the Duke of France.

The Queen Mother of Scotland was extremely reluctant for her daughter to marry the son of a pagan. Further, if her daughter had died in England before the birth of an heir, her rights, and all of Scotland, would have been vested in England as agreed in the treaty.